Camera captures night sky spiral after SpaceX rocket launch
A camera atop Hawaii's tallest mountain has captured what looks like a spiral swirling through the night sky.
Space Exploration
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Meteorites reveal likely origin of Earth's volatile chemicals
Meteorites have told Imperial researchers the likely far-flung origin of Earth's volatile chemicals, some of which form the building blocks of life.
Astrobiology
Jan 27, 2023
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Volcano-like rupture could have caused magnetar slowdown
On Oct. 5, 2020, the rapidly rotating corpse of a long-dead star about 30,000 light years from Earth changed speeds. In a cosmic instant, its spinning slowed. And a few days later, it abruptly started emitting radio waves.
Astronomy
Jan 27, 2023
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Starry tail tells the tale of dwarf galaxy evolution
A giant diffuse tail of stars has been discovered emanating from a large, faint dwarf galaxy. The presence of a tail indicates that the galaxy has experienced recent interaction with another galaxy. This is an important clue ...
Astronomy
Jan 27, 2023
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Hubble views bright variable star V 372 Orionis and a smaller companion star
The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which has also captured a smaller companion star in the upper left of this image. Both stars lie in the Orion ...
Astronomy
Jan 27, 2023
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Perseverance takes a selfie to show off some of its samples
One of the main jobs for the Perseverance Mars rover past few weeks has been collecting carefully selected samples of Mars rock and soil. These samples have been placed and sealed in special sample tubes and left in well-identified ...
Planetary Sciences
Jan 27, 2023
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Video: The Sample Transfer Arm: A helping hand for Mars
The mission to return Martian samples back to Earth will use a European 2.5 meter-long robotic arm to pick up tubes filled with precious soil from Mars and transfer them to a rocket for an historic interplanetary delivery.
Planetary Sciences
Jan 27, 2023
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Green comet zooming our way, last visited 50,000 years ago
A comet is streaking back our way after 50,000 years.
Planetary Sciences
Jan 27, 2023
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Instrument on JWST has gone offline
The JWST is having a problem. One of its instruments, the Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS), has gone offline. The NIRISS performs spectroscopy on exoplanet atmospheres, among other things.
Astronomy
Jan 27, 2023
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Astronomers inspect a powerful radio-loud high-redshift quasar
Using the European VLBI Network (EVN), an international team of astronomers has performed high-resolution imaging observations of a powerful and radio-loud high-redshift quasar known as J2102+6015. Results of the observational ...
